Stress and Sociocultural Reactions to Environmental Change in the Late and Terminal Lima on the Central Coast of Peru

Summary

This project examined evidence of stress in 469 excavated human skeletons of the pre-Hispanic Lima

population from Huaca 20 in the Maranga Complex in modern day Lima, Peru dating to the end of the Early

Intermediate Period (ca. 200-600 AD) and the beginning of the Middle Horizon (ca. 600-900 AD). This period saw the movement

of the populations on both the North and Central Coasts of the Andes inland to areas

with greater access to the critical water supply (Shimada, 1994). While the majority opinion is that this

transition was related to environmental stressors, their severity, effect, and manifestation in the population

is unclear. The main objective of this study is to explore what types of stressors the Lima at the Maranga

Complex, one of their principal ceremonial-population centers, experienced and how the population

responded to those stressors.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 22129